#research

The point of literary criticism in anthropology is not to replace research, but to find out how it is that we are persuasive. ↗

— Clifford Geertz

#criticism #find #how #literary #literary criticism

I find that when I play reality-based characters, it is only as fun for me if I have a lot of time to do research. If I don't it just isn't exciting but if I do, it can be fun because I can learn about that person and the world that they live in and I can become somebody else. ↗

— Daryl Hannah

#because #become #characters #else #exciting

My very, very first professional job was when I was 19 years old - I got a job doing an educational industrial film on Shell Motor Oil's oil products. I really put my heart into it - I wrote a script for it, I did a lot of research. ↗

— Renny Harlin

#doing #educational #film #first #got

The short-term vision is: I research on something which I can use tomorrow, and for some politicians it is even better if it's today. But if you do this, you can only do targeted research. If you only do targeted research, you lose the side-routes. ↗

— Rolf-Dieter Heuer

#even #i #i can #lose #only

Love permeates all things and laws. Scientists should research it more. ↗

— Toba Beta

#life #love #permeate #research #scientist

Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose. ↗

— Zora Neale Hurston

#poking #prying #purpose #research

Everything I know, I write about. My only research is what I did. ↗

— Mort Walker

#did #everything #i #i write #know

Red Bull are backing a spinal-injury research charity called Wings For Life, which I am an ambassador for, with a programme called Faces for Charity that will run at this year's British Grand Prix. ↗

— Mark Webber

#ambassador #backing #british #bull #called

If they are, then the only ultimate truths are the particulars of concrete experience, and no postulate or general assumption is inherent in science until its proceedings become systematic, or the truths already reached give direction to further research. ↗

— Chauncey Wright

#assumption #become #concrete #direction #experience

However, research in the years that followed found that in many of its important features, African American Vernacular English was becoming not less, but more different from other dialects. ↗

— William Labov

#african american #american #becoming #dialects #different